Sentence examples similar to vanished and merely from inspiring English sources

Early on in the 18-mile race, my resolve vanished and I struggled merely to finish.

In "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Cullen Murphyy tries to find out why people once did expect the Spanish Inquisition, and if the inquisitors have vanished or merely changed clothes.

I crawl, vanishing and appearing.

"It will vanish and shrink.

The logic is, as Ward said, that if you can demonstrate that the empire forged an idea of Britain, then Britain's vanishing two centuries later "is merely a question of the laws of physics – remove the load-bearing pillar, and the structure falls".

The people did not vanish merely because Zenawi had unloosed his trigger-happy goons on the streets.

They ingest it and merely blow up.

Or have great masterpieces merely vanished from the market?

This is the rapturous scrutiny of the diva that has become a tiresome conceit in fiction by gay men, and that in this instance culminates in a description of the kept woman touching the tip of her cigarette "so lightly to an ashtray that the ashes merely vanished".

And then he went and vanished.

But the man merely inquired whether she belonged to the tribe of the British commander — she did not record her presumably sensible reply — and immediately vanished, along with his history and his motives).